Senior High School Class of 1953
members share their Wedding
Anniversaries with classmates in our
new Anniversary Pages.

Please send us your information and
we will share it with everyone on
School Days.
Your complete 1953 Year
Book
A Tom's Tour of Springfield
Special!
Take a trip back to School Days with
Tom's Pictures from the 50's
Our Class of 1953
as seen in the 1952
Re'sum'e
Let's Have some fun!  Let's take a short detour on
our trip down memory lane to School Days.  How
about memories of fifties and sixties music. Our
songs and music from the 50's.  Stop in and visit
"Our Music"
Click on the Jukebox
Tom adds to his tour with visits to Drury University,
Evangel University and Missouri State University.
View Springfield Senior High School Today
Click Here
History of Springfield Public Schools
A unique look at Springfield's educational
system from the early 1800's to the present  
time!  Courtesy of Richard Grosenbaugh
Click Here
Joe Underwood's
"On The Road"
Click Here
Share your vacation or travel stories with your classmates!
Contact Joe Underwood:        joe.underwood7@verizon.net
You may also send contributions to any of our staff and we
will forward them to Joe.
We Salute Our
Military
Down Memory Lane
Hot Dog!
Hot links to other
Class Web Sites and More
Click Here
Copy Right to the School Days web site is retained by Robert Osterloh and Thomas Bingaman 02-05-2006
As School Days continues to grow, so does the staff workload.  Charlotte and
Carolyn have kindly offered their help to Pansy in her effort to expand  School Days.
This is your team that has it's goal to make School Days the best virtual home on
the Internet.  
We want to recognize all the help
given  by Leona Potter Snider.  
She provided us with copies of the
Re'sume', the Black Book , the
High Times and many other items.
Thank you Leona
Charlotte Smith Northrip
Associate Editor
Carolyn McLemore Myers
Associate Editor
Thank You Leona!
I'm Charlotte
I'm Carolyn
A message from your Webmaster:

Your School Days Hosts took an idea and a wish and molded it into School Days, the virtual home of The SHS Class
of 1953.   A wagon, if you will, to take us down memory lane for a visit to the good old days at Senior High School.  
Our goal is to provide a home like atmosphere for class members to gather, a place to bring back those wonderful
memories of School Days.  It is also a place to share those memories with family and friends especially with children
and grandchildren.   And just as important, it's an real effort to bring our circle of classmates closer together.

Your staff has worked long and hard to put together this trip down memory lane and we've had so much fun doing it.  
We've also had a lot of cheering and shouting as we drove our School Days Wagon across your screen.  Now it's
time for you to climb on the wagon and make the trip back to School Days with us.   Please take time to visit regularly
and most of all contribute your suggestions, pictures and stories to help make this a home for the Class of 1953 that
we will all want to visit often.

Bob Osterloh
Bob Osterloh:  Webmaster.  I take
the parts of the puzzle from Tom
and Pansy, sit in a comfortable
chair and push a few keys and what
you see is what you get.  I also bug
you with the news letter updates.
Tom Bingaman:  Associate Webmaster,
Our Graphics and Communications
Director:  Tom has taken the pictures
and information, applied his talents to
them and sent them here to build  
School Days.  Without Tom it would
have been impossible for the rest of us
to complete School Days.
Pansy Nelson Bingham:  Associate  
Webmaster and Senior Editor.  doing
all the things that Tom or I can't do.
Our Cheerleader  leader, and much
more, providing information and
ideas for our School Days home
Bob Osterloh
Webmaster
And News Editor
Tom Bingaman
Associate Webmaster
And Graphics Director
Pansy Bingham
Associate Webmaster
and Senior Editor
I'm Bob
I'm Tom
I'm Pansy
Meet Your School Days Hosts
We invite you to take a trip
down memory lane to
Springfield Senior High School
in 1953
Let's relive some of those
wonderful memories of School
Days
School Days
Nothing to do Nellie darling, Nothing to do you say,
Let's take a trip on memory's ship, Back to the bygone days-
Sail to the old village school house, Anchor outside the door,
Look in and see, there's you and there's me,
A couple of kids once more.
School Days, School Days, dear old golden rule days,
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a
hickory stick,
You were my queen in calico, I was your bashful barefoot
beau,
And you wrote on my slate, "I love you, Joe"
When we were a couple of kids.

'Member the hill, Nellie Darling ?
And the oak tree that grew on its brow ?
They've built forty stories upon that old hill,
And the oak's an old chestnut now,
'Member the meadows so green, dear ?
So fragrant with clover and maize,
Into new city lots and preferred business plots,
They've cut them up since those days.

School Days, School Days, dear old golden rule days,
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic, Taught to the tune of a
hickory stick,
You were my queen in calico, I was your bashful barefoot
beau,
And you wrote on my slate, "I love you, Joe"
When we were a couple of kids.
Welcome to the home of Springfield Senior High School Class of 1953.  We hope that as you  visit here it  
will bring back many memories of "School Days" at Senior High School.  We also hope that you will  share
our "Class of 53" home with  friends and  family,  but especially  with  children and grandchildren.   As
one of the last  graduating  classes  of Senior High School, every member of the "Class of 53" shares in the
history of that  special place and time.  Shown above is the renovated  East Wing originally constructed  
between 1908 and 1913.  Roll your  mouse over the picture and see the present auditorium which was built
in 1939.
"School Days"
Dedicated to bringing old friends together.
Friends are like stars, you can't always see them, but you know that they are there.
Welcome to
"School Days"
The Virtual Home of the Senior High School
"Class of 1953"
Springfield Missouri
Our 55th Reunion is History, But the Memories Will Remain!
This site is best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024 X 768
Everyone attending had a wonderful time renewing friendships and reliving memories.  We Have
completed our first phase coverage of the Reunion and invite you to visit our new pages.  We will
add more pictures as time progresses.  We hope that you enjoy what we have done and that it will
provide memories today and in the future.

A personal note:  I received a package from Barbara with all your Thank You Notes and I am
truly humbled by  you kind words.  Keep in mind however, that School Days is a team effort and
without Tom, Pansy, Carolyn and Charlotte it would be impossible to have School Days on the
Internet.  Your expressions are the fuel we need to make School Days bigger and better than ever.  
Thanks so much...Bob.....
Welcome to "School Days"
Your Virtual Internet "Home Room"